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Synchronicity!
In 2010, across from my studio: 700 m² of free space.
I had dreamt of The Derwich becoming bigger.
In a month everything was organized.
I had found the team.
The adventure was starting.
When it came to the skirt’s plaster (89m²) I asked myself “How am I going to do that?”
A man appeared, he had retired the day before… a plasterer.
The magic could continue.
During the finishing touches, a man walks through the door.
We talk beneath The Derwich… he says he sees it in Turkey.
This idea stays in my mind…As soon as it was finished, in July of the same year,
Derwich Monumenta left, by land and by sea, for Istanbul.
Twenty-five people for one energy.
The pleasure of creating, of facing and resolving technical, organisational and human challenges.
Magic was born from itself, everything was there: the space, the light, the synchronicity.
Derwich Monumenta, 2010
Metal and resin structure
2 copies: 22,9 ft and 27,9 ft, 5 tons/11 023,11 lb
We greet each other
32,8 feet high, 2296 ft² : Derwich Monumenta’s uterus
Calculating the skirt’s enlargement with a pantograph
Mina welding the bust’s enlargement
The original skirt and its wire enlargement
Monumenta’s skirt after the first layer of plaster
Monumenta’s bust: beginning of the plaster stage
Putting it in crates for its trip to Turkey, 2011
Loading for Istanbul